The background: Peace, a new four-piece from Birmingham, are the kind of band we can imagine playing one of our New Band of the Day nights, and we're not just saying that because it's going to be harder to solicit the services of A$AP Rocky, Azealia Banks, Tyler the Creator and the Weeknd. No, we're saying it because they sound like a cross between Foals and Wu Lyf, and we liked those bands enough to commit our opinions to print, or at least, to digital matter, or anti-matter – whatever, you know what we mean. We said it loud and proud: we like Foals and Wu Lyf, and now we're saying we like Peace, a new Foals/Wu hybrid.

That's not all they are. Peace describe what they do as "dark melodic indie techno", but their debut track BBlood sounds more like gruff-voiced Afro-pop, as though Wu Lyf's frontman had suddenly hijacked Vampire Weekend. The song moves at a brisk pace, but it's rhythmic enough to suggest what might have happened had world music been the invention of a landfill indie band. This, we believe, is the demo version so it might change completely, but as it stands there is a choppy verse section and a more rocky chorus. We prefer the verse, and would suggest ditching the chorus, but then we're crazy like that. We also like the way the guitar becomes increasingly, um, phosphorescent at the song goes on. It does! Listen. The one other track we've heard by them is Follow, and it's totally different, to the extent it could almost be another group. That's either bravely eclectic or diverse to the point of madness, we haven't quite decided. It's like baggy meets My Bloody Valentine – in other words, Soon revisited – with some Smells Like Teen Spirit swagger. We're confused, although not displeasingly so.

What else can we tell you about Peace? They formed last autumn and have already supported the Vaccines, Tame Impala and Magic Kids. At one of their first London gigs, at the Old Blue Last, they painted a 10ft Peace symbol all over the venue, clearly unconcerned that someone on the minimum wage had to scrub it off the next morning. Still, what do they care – they're rock'rollers who like to grind, roll and smoke and, allegedly, fuck you in the heart with their music. We know this because they have a manifesto that reads: "MUSIC TO GRIND, ROLL & SMOKE/ MUSIC TO FUCK YOU IN THE HEART." We also have it on pretty good authority (ie one of the band told us) that at least one member of Peace is distantly related to Michael J Fox, that Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood swapped a pair of his cargo trousers for one of their demos, and that they recently got into a fight with Finley Quaye when he became jealous at an aftershow party the band were getting more female attention than him. The fracas culminated with Quaye throwing a drink over guitarist Doug Castle. There'll be none of that behaviour at our New Band nights.

The buzz: "Like a better and less pretentious Foals … there are elements of Friendly Fires and Theme Park … the tension and religious chaos of Wu Lyf" – musicbrokemybones.co.uk.